Примери за heiress

• Likewise, though both wealthy heiresses are willfully independent, they freely redeem their neighbors' estates after the false courtship has been revealed.

• One might have expected that women who were the only child of the family to marry would, as heiresses, have married younger.

• Unlike their forerunners, they could not look to a profusion of heiresses nor to the rewards of office to propel their rise.

• In the case of heiresses, they were able to attract men to move in with them in what is often called an "uxorilocal marriage".

• According to the legislation, an heir or heiress with a larger share could buy out the others if the farm was too small to divide.

• A base action was set up in which a younger son courts an heiress for her dowry.

• Moreover, when headship passed to an heiress, it usually passed to her husband.

• However, the remaining heirs include two women and three sons-in-law, or the adopted spouses of heiresses.

• This circumstance allowed the possibility of an heir and an heiress marrying, which would result in the unification of their patrimonies.

• Occupational endogamy appears to have been of particular importance in the marriages of heiresses.

• With heiresses, there was the added dimension of guaranteeing there would be an adult male to administer the property, especially when the parents were already deceased.

• So, on an indictment for the fraudulent abduction of an heiress, the lady has been admitted as a witness for the prosecution.

• He possibly may marry an heiress, and would therefore in these circumstances be in a position to maintain the property for a short time.

• In the old days one of the favourite local hobbies of the lads of the village was abducting wealthy heiresses.

• Imagine the heiress of a millionaire who has had an impromptu affair with a bricklayer—such things have happened and will continue to happen.